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  • From: Eric Womack <eric AT lasvegasdata.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] System crontab
  • Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 05:29:21 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I am working on a spell for a program which will need a script run daily. On
> Mandrake I'd put it in /etc/cron.daily/. In Source Mage, I attempted to cast
> hc-cron and fcron. fcron failed, and hc-cron succeeded even though mutt
> failed. hc-cron as cast is a bare bones program. How do I run a script
> daily,
> when I can't be sure what kind of cron daemon a system has?
>
> phma
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crontab -e

/path/to/program * * * * *

man crontab to see the date/time entries used for "*"

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Eric Womack
Grimoire Guru - KDE
System Administrator
Las Vegas Data LLC

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